Biography Evelyn Page

Evelyn Page (1899-1988)

She began her training as an artist at the Canterbury School of Art in 1915 at the time of Raymond McIntyre and Owen Merton. In spite of early formalist training she soon adopted the style her painting she is so well known and loved for today; the atmospheric effects of light with freshly applied and increasingly vibrant color, in the manner of Cézanne and Bonnard although it was not until the 1930s that she first visited Paris and saw original works by the French Post- Impressionists.

Throughout her long career as an artist she continued to paint in the style she developed during her time in Christchurch, following her singular interpretation of visual experiences, regardless of any chang
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